Salt Lake Tribune Review
In this kiddie-comedy silliness,
Jackie Chan plays Bob Ho, who appears to be a mild-mannered pen salesman romancing Gillian (
Amber Valletta), a single-mom neighbor whose three kids -- bratty teen Farren (
Madeline Carroll), dweeby middle-schooler Ian (Will Shadley) and adorable 4-year-old Nora (Alina Foley) -- don't like him. But Bob is really a Chinese spy working with a CIA partner (
Billy Ray Cyrus) to nab a Russian supervillain (Magnús Scheving, creator/star of Nickelodeon's "Lazy Town"), who tracks Bob down while he's minding the kids. Director
Brian Levant ("Are We There Yet?") blandly oversees this underwhelming rip-off of "The Pacifier," which comes alive only when Chan shows his old skills, turning whatever's at hand -- restaurant chairs, pots and pans, a pool skimmer -- into a kung fu weapon.
Synopsis: A man (
Jackie Chan) is forced to defend some neighborhood children who have been put in his care against secret agents looking for a stolen secret code in this Relativity Media family action film. Are We There Yet's helmer
Brian Levant directs from a script by
Jonathan Bernstein and Jim Greer.~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
